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Back Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
- [Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it…
- ...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with…
- ...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from…
- I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
- I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm…
- I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?
- Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now…
- This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in…
- I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
- The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
- My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
- I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the…
- Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent…
- What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way,…
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- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood